The Bar Code Tattoo

By 2025, every U.S. citizen is expected to receive a bar code tattoo on their seventeenth birthday, encoding genetic information alongside financial and personal records and replacing driver's licenses, bank cards, and IDs. Kayla Reed resists the pressure to get hers, uneasy about being reduced to a scannable label. When people who get the tattoo begin dying by suicide, including Kayla's own father, she becomes convinced something is deeply wrong with the program. Refusing the tattoo makes Kayla an outcast at school and puts her family at risk, drawing her into a growing resistance movement fighting to stop the tattoo from becoming mandatory. This is the first book in Suzanne Weyn's Bar Code trilogy, followed by The Bar Code Rebellion and The Bar Code Prophecy.